Our results paint early apes in an amorous light, showing that the ancestors of large apes were kissing each other as far ...

Could the last chapters of Neanderthal history be far more complicated than anyone thought? A newly sequenced genome from a ...

A new study released on Wednesday found that humanity's first kiss occurred roughly 21 million years ago, predating humans.

Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole.

Our results paint early apes in an amorous light, showing that the ancestors of large apes were kissing each other as far back as 21.5 – 16.9 million years ago. Clearly, they were onto a good thing ...

When a cave has been sealed off from the surface world for roughly 57,000 years, anything inside it feels, by definition, non-human to us. I went into this story expecting another incremental update ...

Humans do it, monkeys do it, even polar bears do it. And now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of ...

A study led by Oxford University argues that kissing evolved in the common ancestors of humans and apes, and that our extinct ...

The new study involved taking a fresh look at the "Altamura Man," which is an exceptionally well-preserved Neanderthal ...

For decades, anthropologists have wondered whether kissing is an evolutionary thing or a unique cultural quirk we humans ...